A Life of Aristotle: Including a Critical Discussion of Some Questions of Literary History Connected with His WorksJ. and J.J. Deighton, 1839 - 181 pages |
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... seem to have been contained in the treatises of Demetrius the Magnesian and Apollodorus the Athe- nian . The first of these was a contemporary of Cicero This seems to follow from the fact that Diogenes only quotes him in the lives of ...
... seem to have been contained in the treatises of Demetrius the Magnesian and Apollodorus the Athe- nian . The first of these was a contemporary of Cicero This seems to follow from the fact that Diogenes only quotes him in the lives of ...
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... , ( the ancient Caprea ) which lies off Sorrento , is curious , and seems to favour the account of Frontinus , that Sur- rentum was originally colonized by Greeks . 2 HIS FAMILY . 13 vantages of civilization which Grecian CHAPTER II. ...
... , ( the ancient Caprea ) which lies off Sorrento , is curious , and seems to favour the account of Frontinus , that Sur- rentum was originally colonized by Greeks . 2 HIS FAMILY . 13 vantages of civilization which Grecian CHAPTER II. ...
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... seems impossible not to believe must have been imbibed in his very earliest years , and most probably under the imme- diate superintendence of this parent . For although he was an orphan at the age of seventeen , ( and how much earlier ...
... seems impossible not to believe must have been imbibed in his very earliest years , and most probably under the imme- diate superintendence of this parent . For although he was an orphan at the age of seventeen , ( and how much earlier ...
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... seems to indicate that the favourite studies of Aristotle , in the early part of his life , were such as his father's profession would naturally have led him to , Physiology and Natural History ' . Indeed , nothing is more probable than ...
... seems to indicate that the favourite studies of Aristotle , in the early part of his life , were such as his father's profession would naturally have led him to , Physiology and Natural History ' . Indeed , nothing is more probable than ...
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... seem quite the reverse in a youthful pupil who pro- mised speedily to become a rival . An anecdote is related by Ælian2 , from which we should infer that overt hostility broke out between them . Aristotle , it is said , taking advantage ...
... seem quite the reverse in a youthful pupil who pro- mised speedily to become a rival . An anecdote is related by Ælian2 , from which we should infer that overt hostility broke out between them . Aristotle , it is said , taking advantage ...
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Page 74 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : he cannot flatter, he, — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he 's plain.